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The Worlds Children
June 17, 2014
Read: James 1:222:1
After a group of high schoolers visited an orphanage during a ministry trip, one student was visibly upset. When asked why, he said it reminded him of his own situation 10 years earlier.
This young man had been living in an orphanage in another country. He said he recalled people coming to visit him and his friendsjust as these students were doingand then going away. Occasionally someone would come back and adopt a child. But each time he was left behind he would wonder, Whats wrong with me?
When the teenagers would visit an orphanageand then leavethose old feelings came back to him. So the others in the group prayed for himand thanked God that one day a woman (his new mother) showed up and chose him as her very own son. It was a celebration of an act of love that gave one boy hope.
Across the world are children who need to know of Gods love for them (Matt. 18:4-5; Mark 10:13-16; James 1:27). Clearly, we cant all adopt or visit these childrenand indeed we are not expected to. But we can all do something: Support. Encourage. Teach. Pray. When we love the worlds children, we honor our Father who adopted us into His family (Gal. 4:4-7).
Father, You made each child in Your
image. Help us to convey Your love
to them with our hands, our help,
and our hearts.
The more Christs love grows in us, the more His love flows from us.
James emphasizes not only learning the Word of God but putting it into action. The Word is like a mirror that shows us where we are making spiritual progress and where we need improvement: But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does (v.25). The Scriptures clearly give us set boundaries, but it is obedience that brings us a sense of liberty and blessing.
The immense, exquisite details of God's creations are absolutely beyond our understanding. Exact distinctive, and astonishing diversity of the Universe is mind boggling. Oh, we have theories as to how all the planets hang exactly in space and have regular features we see and wonder about. Exact! It is not chaos. It is seemingly permanent. We have become too entrenched in thinking it is ordinary. It is not ordinary .. blase ... it is wonderful and we only barely realize the amazement of our world and universe, not to mention all the creatures of this planet. There are many mysteries ... yet to be discovered.
Let us humble thank God for our life and our world and His Scriptures Sorry for the rant, it is emphasis for my own mind to remember.